just sang "I'm not a trad wife I just cook a lot" in a Big Pun voice while pickling onions if you want to narrow in on my exact demographic
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Woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough. Your foreign correspondent. Sometime music writer. Kombucha socialist. Pointy dog owner. Hemmelig dansker.
New York's use of AI for family policing summarizes the last 30 years of city politics: defector.com/new-yorks-us...
New York’s Use Of AI For Family Policing Summarizes The Last 30 Years Of City Politics | Defector
Davene Roseborough still can’t believe the number of foster homes she lived in that had locks on the refrigerators and cabinets. At one spot, Roseborough was barred from eating dinner if she wasn’t…
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“You’re a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, how come you don’t like Palantir?” “You’re a huge fan of 1984, how come you don’t like the surveillance state?” “You’re a huge fan of Fahrenheit 451, how come you don’t like ritual book burnings?”
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
They want you to forget that you took care of yourselves and others im 2020 because they want you to be helpless and frightened in the face of the violence and robbery theyre doing
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last wk.An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
One of the striking things about studying sexual violence is realizing how many people became abolitionists *because* they were victims of crime.
Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
"Bitter people don’t start stealing furniture from work when upcoming layoffs are announced. Petty people do." When I was in design school I was working on a CD-ROM project and found I wasn't getting paid. And that's the story of how I got my first shoebox sized 1 gig hard drive. Viva la petty! ✊
Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social · 2w agoHere is your Saturday read: “Bitterness is a weight made up, not of all the times people told you you couldn’t do something—but of all the times you believed them.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
Friend of a friend is part of a group challenging data center construction in the Scranton, PA, area. Anyone know of any groups they could link to for support or journalists/researchers/lawyers who could help with documentation?
On this day in 1980, these legends met in London: Chrissie Hynde, Pauline Black, Debbie Harry, Poly Styrene, Viv Albertine and Siouxsie Sioux. 📸Chris Stein
Not a rhetorical question! You're looking for the Fair Food Program by @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social It's mostly in tomatoes, & the dairy co-ops that serve Ben & Jerry's ice cream up in Vermont. You'd be amazed how cheap it is to treat people right. For tomatoes, it's literally 1-2 cents/lb.
Politics of Cars@thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 2w agonaive rhetorical question, to prompt your opinion I'd pay a premium for food not grown by exploited workers (bonus, with less poop on it). I don't want to find a farmer I personally trust. Why isn't a certification like that readily accessible? Is there no market, or eg do other farmers block it?
In the same way that if you have an improperly sealed ant farm then the ants getting out is not the ants exhibiting any kind of superintelligence
Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2w agoReally important to note that in no way shape or form did Anthropic’s models in this incident “escape containment,” and not just in the word-policing sort of way. The model stumbled through an open, misconfigured gap. From Anthropic’s incident report:
Big news today: GERMAN COURT RULES AI MUSIC FIRM SUNO BROKE COPYRIGHT RULES Suno "has to provide information on illicit revenue", and "will have to pay damages". Wow. www.reuters.com/world/german...
“It’s the major labels more than the streaming platforms” has been said to me a thousand times by people who have no intention of doing anything about either
Molly Crabapple@mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 2w ago99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
I learned this very recently and was like what do you mean it often begins in the fallopian tubes? Why don't they call it fallopian tube cancer? Seems like an easy way to raise awareness of prevention strategies???
Morgan Thompson@morgankthomp.bsky.social · 2w agoWoah, this is huge news: most ovarian cancer begins in the fallopian tubes, which can be removed (if patient desires) during other abdominal surgeries. Ovarian cancer has vague symptoms and often isn’t diagnosed until late stage with low survival rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...
Sex workers always warn y'all about predators, and y'all never listen.
Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."
By filing Freedom of Information requests, 404 Media has obtained bodycam footage and documents that uncover stories about tech that powers ICE and how cops abuse Flock. You can FOIA too! On July 30th at 1 pm ET, we will teach you how to file a FOIA request live: www.404media.co/our-new-foia...
Denver -- Come get your tators!* 🥔 (*But seriously, free potatoes) Monday 7/27 @ 9am - 12pm Park Hill Food Recovery Hub, 6090 E. 39th Ave “Anyone is welcome to come. They can bring tote bags, wagons, you could back up your pickup truck if you wanted to."
Ryan (Ry) Warner@ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 3w agoDenver, if you're free on Monday, a mountain of free spuds awaits:
Just want to reiterate: the operatives and politicians who do transphobic bus-tossing never account for how much pissing off their own base costs them not just votes but volunteer time, donors and even positive private conversations with friends, neighbors and coworkers.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w agoWhats worse... A single Democratic loss in a statewide race to a right-wing governor? Or a Democratic Party win in Ohio that uses transphobia to get there, teaching dems across the country that this is a new acceptable tactic? The latter results in no party left to fight for us.
Good on @mayor.nyc.gov for creating a Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew for NYC! PIT Crews do critical work researching and developing tech that makes peoples' lives easier. We're very proud of EFF's PIT Crew and the work they do to defend civil liberties and enhance privacy & security online 💻🖤
Mamdani forms Public Interest Technology crews to improve government efficiency and affordability
The city will hire teams of technologists who will work through city departments to streamline their online portals to make them easier to navigate.
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L7’s Jennifer Finch Diagnosed With Aggressive Brain Cancer 😿 www.spinmagazine.com/2026/07/jenn...
L7’s Jennifer Finch Diagnosed With Brain Cancer - SPIN
L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and is currently undergoing treatment, the band announced. L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an agg...
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This highlights (again) how too many professional Democrats don't experience Republicans the same way their supporters do. I never met Graham, so I don't have an opinion on his charm etc. But like most Americans, I did experience his warmongering and his abetting of Trump's & the GOP's fascism. 1/x
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · last mo.What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.
My longstanding policy preference has been to torture zero souls, for zero days. My colleague Satan preferred to torture all souls, for eternity. I appreciated his willingness to negotiate, which led to the historic Torture One Million Souls act of 2014 and the Torture A Bunch More Souls act of 2018
“If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” —Anne Lamott
Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · last mo.When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.
